Little Raps – Restaurant Strategy Insights and Ideas
Little Raps - Restaurant Strategy Insights and Ideas
Podcast Description
Restaurant leaders are overwhelmed with a buffet of challenges from loyalty through ordering, emerging new tech and an ever-changing market mindset. It's a constant reality of spinning plates. On Little Raps we feed leaders with new ideas and inspiration to help maximize results. Whether it's interviewing leaders for profound insights or providing best practices from the minds of our team, these Little Raps are sure to add some spice to your digital experience strategies.
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The podcast focuses on topics such as digital experience optimization, restaurant loyalty strategies, market expansion tactics, and customer behavior insights, with episodes including practical lessons from the Super Bowl for digital growth and leveraging the Zeigarnik Effect to enhance guest engagement.
Restaurant leaders are overwhelmed with a buffet of challenges from loyalty through ordering, emerging new tech and an ever-changing market mindset. It’s a constant reality of spinning plates. On Little Raps we feed leaders with new ideas and inspiration to help maximize results. Whether it’s interviewing leaders for profound insights or providing best practices from the minds of our team, these Little Raps are sure to add some spice to your digital experience strategies.
Cracker Barrel brought back the old logo and calmed the pearl-clutchers. But let’s not get distracted. A rebrand won’t fix long wait times, food inconsistency, or a pricing perception gap. In this episode, I break down the real reasons Cracker Barrel is losing relevance—and what it needs to do to get back in the game.
We’re talking guest expectations by age group, the myth of the logo fix, and why value and speed are the critical pressure points for restaurant brands today. If you’re in restaurant leadership, strategy, or branding, this one’s for you.
Timestamps:
00:00 – The nostalgia bait-and-switch
01:35 – Why the rebrand happened in the first place
03:10 – What each generation really wants from Cracker Barrel
06:45 – Value and speed: the red thread
08:20 – Why logos don’t fix operational problems
10:05 – What Cracker Barrel needs to do next
12:30 – Your move: how restaurant brands can learn from this
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